Siyu Wang

Prior to George Mason University, I received my B.S. degree at Shanghai
Jiaotong University, where I started my exciting pursuit of
experimental economics at the Smith Experimental Economics Research
Center. I also attended Nanyang Technological University in Singapore
for a year as part of my undergraduate degree. Both of my parents and many other relatives are professors in China. My mom
teaches Physical & Sport education in Chengdu Sport University. My dad teaches Operations Research in the business school of Southwest University for Nationalities.
Growing up
in an academic family, it has always being my dream to stand on
classroom platfroms and conducting inspiring research, especially after
I discovered my love for economics.
I’m an avid foodie having grown up in Sichuan, the birthplace of
Chinese spicy food. I am very fortunate to find my husband who is an outstanding statistician
and an amazing chef. We compete on making American, Chinese, Mexican,
Thai and Italian food. The following are some of our "competition" dishes,
you're welcome to be our judge : )

Noodles by Siyu Rice by Siyu

Chicken by Siyu

Pasta by GarrettFish by Garrett

Bread by Garrett

Besides
experimenting with new recipes, I also love sailing on a
semi-competitive team, badminton, and dancing. (Hopefully all the
exercise
cancels out the eating…)
I
love all kinds of sports and achieved national level II certification of both badminton
and long jump. I do long-distance biking and jogging regularly.

Finally, I have been playing a traditional Chinese musical instrument (known as Guzheng) for 20 years.
In
2005, I reached the highest level achieveable in China, Level 10. Guzheng
is a traditional Chinese plucked string instrument that is part of the
zither family. It was popular as early as in the Warring States
(475-221 BC), especially in the state of Qin in the west of
China. Its
name came from the folk tale that Se (a large table harp) was split
half to settle a family quarrel between two sons, thus creating the
first two Guzheng. The bottom part of the
"Guzheng" character means "quarrel". Guzheng is "immediate relative" of the
Japanese Koto, the Korean Kayagum, the Mogolian Yatag, and the
Vietnamese Dan Tranh.